1920s Newspaper Blacksox

Baseball used to be pure Before the first pitch of the 1919 World Series, the crowd in Cincinnati eagerly anticipated the upcoming game. Most Chicago fans knew their team was going to win. And the Cincinnati fans knew their team was the underdog, but they routed for them anyway. As it turned out, the White Sox lost the fist two games. Then won one. Then lost two more. And won two, but after 8 games they lost …

…treated them any better they probably wouldn’t have thrown the series. The true “Black Sox” do deserve what they have received. Even American heroes are not above the law. After Joe Jackson confessed before grand jury, mobs of men and boys crowded around him while walked to his car. They cried, “Say it ain’t so Joe,” Jackson never replied. The “Black Sox” will always now refer to the 8 men of the 1919 World Series.